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Media Allowed to Cover National Tea Party Convention: Fox, WorldNetDaily, Breitbart

By | 01.14.10 | 12:28 pm

The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville have announced which media outlets will get full access to the event. “Everyone from a small town newspaper in Iowa to Fox News has asked for press credentials,” say organizers in a press release. “We have had requests from More…

WorldNetDaily and Palin, Together At Last

By | 01.07.10 | 10:32 am

I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea Party Convention. Undoubtedly the Tea Party event has more to offer her financially–tickets for her speech, as I reported last month, are selling More…

WorldNetDaily Wants Us to Know How Many People Hate It

By | 12.31.09 | 11:47 am

Chelsea Schilling has published the best WorldNetDaily article in my recent memory, an expose of the many, many, many names that WND Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah has been called on Wikipedia. To wit:

Wikipedia’s profile page for Farah has dubbed him “homophobic,” a “conspiracy theorist,” “white supremacist,” a “proud member

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Bachmann and WorldNetDaily, Together at Last

By | 11.18.09 | 9:10 am

My profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative Website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential on the right. Here’s some evidence for that argument.

For months — really since it was announced at the How to Take Back America Conference More…

Joseph Farah Responds to WorldNetDaily Critics

By | 09.02.09 | 9:20 am

Joseph Farah, who’s edited the conservative WorldNetDaily.com since its founding in 1997, is swinging back at an ad hoc campaign led by conservative blogger Jon Henke (“this fellow I have never known nor associated with nor even heard of before”) to get “decent” conservatives to boycott the site. More…

WorldNetDaily Responds to Hoax Accusation

By | 08.04.09 | 10:09 am

The editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily left a comment at TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota Independent, taking issue with the statement that the site “has been accused” of publishing hoaxes in the past, such as “poorly written and unauthenticated emails” allegedly between Barack Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

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